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  • SouthernRegionSteam

    Coastguard Creek - 15 months of planning!

    By SouthernRegionSteam

    Hold on to your socks - this is going to be a lengthy one! (In fact it's so long, I've now split it into 2 separate posts - the next will be up soon...)   I think it's fair to say that you are all long overdue an update on Coastguard Creek. Due to other commitments, no real progress has been made since the last post way back in March 2021; almost 15 months ago! If anything, things went backwards for quite a while, as I kept finding more and more inspiring locations that I really wanted
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Dukedog's Blog

Standard Tank, under the weather!

Greetings again from the Dukes kitchen table!   This weeks project has just come off the bench. Last year SWMBO got me this BR standard 3 2-6-2T unweathered of course. I really wanted the green one but, as it was a supprise gift from SWMBO I had no choice in the matter! (No change there then!)   Anyway the loco as it came is built as a southern region job and of course I wanted a western region job. So, out with the tool box, remove the two unwanted lamp irons from the smokebox door an
Dukedog

Dukedog

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eetype3's Vehicle & Plant Blog

Bedford HA vans - one finished! (photos)

Finished one... Mods include narrowing the track by cutting-down the bosses moulded onto the rear of the original Corgi wheels by 1.5 mm per side, adding etched stainless-steel interior and exterior rear-view mirrors and windscreen wipers from the TPM "60s car details" etch, home-made decals and registration plates and some detail painting. A couple of photos (rather cruelly enlarged!):       The decals were scanned from an old BR photo, tweaked in Word 2010, inkjet-printed onto Crafty C
eetype3

eetype3

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shanks522's Blog

An hour or so watching the trains go by.

Hello all, I've been struggling the last few months to get any progress on the layout, There's always things to do but i seem to loose interest quite quickly at the moment, I keep myself busy by building kits or weathering stock etc but work on the layout (especially scenics) has ground to a halt. Nothing major i know but having to wait for kits etc is preventing me doing other work so the knock on effect is nothing gets done and my enthusiasm starts to dry up.   Well this morning i've had ple
shanks522

shanks522

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Wheeltapper's Blog

What to tackle First - thats the Question ?

I have been unable to do any modelling for 18 months which is the amount of time surprisingly I have been travelling to the hospital at Dudley upto four times a week for cancer treatment . However things are now starting to look brighter and I am thinking about which project to restart first .   I had a lot sort of started a year and a half ago and although I have not been able to do any modelling I have done lots of reading and internet research.   Currently the following projects have been
Wheeltapper

Wheeltapper

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leopard1299's Blog

pug building part 3!

just had a bit more time to do some more on the pug still got to sort steps out and finish chassis so thats going to be sometime over the weekend hopefully! anyway took another quick photo!   thanks again for those who have left kind comments & to all those that have helped in other projects in recent times on here at RMweb! cheers  
leopard1299

leopard1299

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coombe junction - moorswater

please don't take (a)fence...

Update - I have now installed the lineside fence om my diorama challenge layout - details can be found here.   http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/37906-moorswater-viaduct-2fs/page__view__findpost__p__488597   From 2nd October I will be back to scribe on this blog...
bcnPete

bcnPete

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Sylvian Tennant's archive of pants!

Peking Duck

Just a few further updates on “Colin” my Area 51 Mucky Duck.   She has now painted up and look fairly complete is a little tatty around the edges. The pony truck and coupling was a humbrol 98 & humbrol 33 that was going spare. The rest os humbrol primor (1) and humbrol 33. The buffer steps were humbro 60. I've also given the smoke box door a coat of humbrol Matt cote to protect the transfers when it comes to weathering.       I’ve (at great frustration) added a smoke box number usi
Sylvian Tennant

Sylvian Tennant

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SPT's Blog

EMU availabilty

I have been looking for a proper non-kit, ready-to-run EMU, but despite trawling around the web looking at various manufacture's stock I have been unable to find any EMU's that aren't kit's or modified kits. I wonder if there is a place in the market for this kind of EMU?
SPT

SPT

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Wheeltapper's Blog

Keeping Things Crossed

Normally the day after the treatment at the cancer clinic the side effects start to hit me and then really kick in after 36 hours. However this time today has been quite good - not perfect but better than usual so perhaps if I keep everything crossed the next few days will be tolerable.   I have never seen the Cancer Clinic so busy - all fifteen of the Units treatment booths were in use , both waiting rooms were full and in the large reception area newly arrived patients were crammed in as
Wheeltapper

Wheeltapper

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Hundred of Chagford Tramway

Chagford - Getting to Grips with my Camera's Macro Facility

Hi All   The previous photographs taken were taken using a white background, and the whole setup is placed on my kitchen window shelf, the window is a large one facing east. I think that I need to adjust the white balance on my camera because the pink fringing.     I've then spent an hour reading the disk based manual for my digital camera, and I have found that I have just as much control over the camera, as when I use my manual reflex camera. The time of day in which the photographs we
Lisa

Lisa

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Sidcup

"The Hornby VEP"

I finally bit the bullet and ordered a 4VEP - and on arrival, it started off probably the most bizarre morning in railway modelling I have had for a long time. For the full story click here... and here... and here...!   But all in all, I'm happy enough now that I've sorted the coach body problem without (thankfully!) breaking anything. It'll remain a sole 4VEP as the diagrammed working I'm planning was a very rare occurrence - it may have been only on Thursdays at peak time, if memory serves..
S.A.C Martin

S.A.C Martin

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Will's workbench

What to do when reality doesn't fit?

Train to Freiburg by Will Vale, on Flickr   I thought I'd take all the junk (well, most of it) off the layout so I could see how things were going. The ballast has worked out well, the tunnels are boxed in at long last, and I like the sweep of the track at the left hand end. Still no bridge though, as you can see:     The problem I've come across is that with the tunnel through the Hirschsprung in place, and the Oberen Hirschsrpung Tunnel which hides the exit to the fiddle yard, there isn
Will Vale

Will Vale

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Chris Nevard's Blog

Web free for 24 hours!

nevard_110916_BQ_IMG_1283_WEB, a photo by nevardmedia on Flickr.   It's amazing what can be achieved if one turns off the computer for 24 hours. This wasn't really planned, but it's Model Rail Live this weekend and I had a rather long list of things to complete which didn't involve hanging around all day on toy chuff chuff forums like a bar fly to stale beer......   The first job of the day; a Leido Trackside die-cast Mechanical Horse received a load of sacks, removal of the British Railways
Chris Nevard

Chris Nevard

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General - Muz's modelling mastications

Model criticism, assumptions and just plain badly informed?

There has been much discussion over the last few years on model forums, and no doubt over a cuppa or three at many a model railway club, about the standard of the current ready to run models.   Bachman first raised the bar approximately 15 years ago with the introduction of their Blue Ribbon range and since then we have all come to expect great detail and accuracy, no longer will the hobby tolerate one model being passed off as another by a simple repaint. Since then all manufacturers have at
Graham_Muz

Graham_Muz

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Redgate's Modelling

The Duke - Final Fiddling

71000 is getting ready for his before primer photo shoot   I've drilled out the chimney and finally sorted the air bubble holes with some gel type cyano (Screwfix Mitre bond - who says doing the kitchen can't help with the modelling )     and I've bit the bullet and fashioned the cab partitions behind the driver and fireman out of plasticard, also a representation of the fireman's seat. The driver as usual comes with a cast in seat     So, just waiting for the buffers from Golden A
RedgateModels

RedgateModels

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milkman matt's Blog

It all started......

When we bought our house about 10 years ago, One of my many plans was to create a space for me to have a model railway. The garage was earmarked for conversion to a room for that purpose. Finally after years of inaction due to life, IVF, My Wifes cancer and just plain lack of money, I am about a month off having one. The house came with a "double" Garage but we never once put the car in it! Instead, it was used as a sort of storage shed/dumping ground for anything that didn't fit in the house o
milkman matt

milkman matt

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Wheeltapper's Blog

The Waiting Game

As its not reckoned to be safe for me to drive any distance I have to go to the hospital for my appointments by ambulance or the hospital car service . This used to be staffed by volunteers but is now a commercial service and although the staff are great you wouldnt actually call it a service . They seem to operate to a completely different timezone to the hospital or the patients . Consequently the Clinic tells them I have an appointment at say 8.30am but by the time that is passed to the drive
Wheeltapper

Wheeltapper

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MarshMills' Blog

1970's Plymouth Traffic

Hi, I'm starting to model again after a long time away from it. I want to capture the sort of trains that I saw as I went into my early teens, at the start of the 70's. I lived on the eastern edge of Plymouth, Devon, spending a lot of my time near Marsh Mills, Tavistock Junction Marshalling Yard and Laira depot.   I can remember seeing clay hoods coming down from the drying plant at Marsh Mills, clay-liner trains, there were still milk trains coming up from Corwall. I think I remember Blu
MarshMills

MarshMills

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MarshMills' Blog

Airfix Hornby Auto Coach

Hi all, I recently came across an Airfix Auto Coach in a pretty sorry state of repair. Most of the vents are missing from the roof as is most of the rain drip strip on one side. Also, most of the buffer beam is missing at one end. I'm not really up to scratch building but can do repairs with appropriate spares. Does anyone know if the roof could be replaced with a roof from another Airfix or Hornby item? Or if the chassis was used on any other items?   I'm sure I can sort out the roof ven
MarshMills

MarshMills

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backofanenvelope's blog

Trials and Tribulations

So although not completely model rail related, I have found somewhere to live which is good! Hopefully be able to set up a bit of a modelling bench now, although I suspect there will be a succession of people want to come and stay! The added bonus is there is a garden, for doing the dirty stuff outside and a little shed.. every man should have a shed I am going to have to keep things tidy so clever use of space will be the order of the day, but I am happy to finally be settling somewhere. More
backofanenvelope

backofanenvelope

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Wheeltapper's Blog

Hospital Again Today

Three weeks has come around very quickly and its off to the Cancer Treatment Clinic today again for my next dose of injections - still at least this new treatment seems to be starting to work well and after 18 months of purgatory with the Chemo we are actually getting some good results. If only I could get more use of my hands back to normal I could get some modelling done as the time it is taking for the nerve damage caused by the chemotheraphy to repair itself seems to be taking for ever. I
Wheeltapper

Wheeltapper

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Jon020's Workbench Blog

P4 Class 55 "Deltic" Conversion - project back on track! P4 Deltic Pt 17

Since my last entry, there has been some work completed. The loco body was eventually stripped with Modelstrip, which was far easier and kinder that the results achieved on one GUV using Superstrip... which I won’t be using again. The photo shows the results on the two GUVs, one (upper) stripped in super strip, the other in Modelstrip. The other photo shows the 55 “modelstrip’d”. One etch (an exhaust) was found in the bowl... and some others needed a little sticking back down, but generally
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    • john new
      Painting some Dapol/Kitmaster workmen.

      By john new · Posted

      Next step completed after the six needed for a track gang have been painted and their foot pedestals clipped off. They will be fitted to the club layout (Axford) as a spot sleepering gang.   First lesson learnt by the experience - it will be easier in future to trim the foot block and drill for the pins before doing the painting.   The reason for the track gang is the l/hand divergent track on this board no longer goes anywhere as it now feeds a single entry sector plate. The
    • bcnPete
      Making Mountains

      By bcnPete · Posted

      This is fabulous Mike.   Thanks for sharing your techniques and it looks stunning in the setting - as Mikkel says, my kinda place!   A nice story and I do hope that they have success.   Love it in BR blue mode too 😀
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      Thankyou for the info.I want a British car but French or American would be OK. My "Dr" from Motley End could do with one of those modern contraptions! Railway modelling causes us all to be very aware of every aspect of life in our chosen era. Its part of the attraction. I could give your Postman a lesson or two in handling parcels also!
    • Mikkel
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By Mikkel · Posted

      Thank you Chris and Mike for the input on wording, "motor cars" it is then.   Douglas those 1960s car rallys sound good. There's an annual vintage fair here in Denmark that we sometimes go to. Here's a 1926 Ford T from a couple of years ago.       Returning to the DAPR 3D prints, I have been in touch with Ben of DAPR. He says that they are still available if you enquire. He also has them with the roof drawn up, and in pickup versions.   He says he co
    • gwr517
      Edwardian motorcars (2): British Ford T Late 1912

      By gwr517 · Posted

      No but a modeller freind has owned and restored 3 early T models. Also I was draged to many Veteran car rallys in the 1960's. My dad being a fan.I have owned 50 cars and 24 m/cycles but only one car and one m/cycle were vintage, a1925 Bullnose Morris and a 1926 AJS bike. I have riden a few veteran bikes in rallys though., great fun.

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